Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel's internal security service, at a former British fort south of Tel Aviv. He could be charged with violating the country's Official Secrets Act or, worse, with treason, which carries a possible lifetime prison sentence. However, Israeli officials are leery of placing Vanunu on trial. Reason: a verdict of guilty, they concede, would have the effect of confirming his story...
...parents object on religious grounds to books used in public schools, then their children are not required to read them. That is the implication of last week's verdict in a Tennessee trial, where Federal District Judge Thomas Hull, who heard the case without a jury, ruled in favor of parents who charged that the local school district forced their children to read textbooks that offended their strict Christian beliefs...
Within an hour of the verdict, the Foreign Office summoned Syrian Ambassador Loutof Allah Haydar and told him of Britain's intention to expel him and the 20 other diplomats in the Syrian Embassy...
...final statement, I repeated that I did not consider myself guilty and that they would be better off letting me go abroad than putting me on trial. An hour later the judge announced his verdict: five years of exile...
After the appeals court confirmed the verdict against me in early September, an MVD official took my passport and gave me a certificate saying I was an exile. He told me that I could not travel beyond Gorky and that I retained all the rights of a citizen of the U.S.S.R. except the right to leave Gorky...